The Two-Way

6:41 am

Thu November 14, 2013

Secret Service Shaken By New Report Of Misconduct

Secret Service agents stood watch earlier this month as President Obama arrived at Dallas Love Field airport.

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A Secret Service supervisor has been removed from his post on the team that protects President Obama and another supervisor has been shifted to a different position after allegations of misconduct that have "sent tremors through an agency still trying to restore its elite reputation," The Washington Post reports.

Writing that it has learned of the alleged misdeeds from "four people who have been briefed on the case, including two who have viewed summaries of the internal Secret Service review," the Post says that:

-- "In a follow-up investigation, agency officials also found that Zamora and another supervisor, Timothy Barraclough, had sent sexually suggestive e-mails to a female subordinate, according to those with knowledge of the case."

The Post says the Secret Service and an attorney representing the agents declined to comment.

This news comes about 18 months after the scandal about Secret Service and U.S. military personnel who brought prostitutes to a hotel in Colombia. The U.S. personnel were there in advance of a trip to that country by Obama.